Manufacturer Recalls Hollow Point Bullets That Fail To Explode Inside Targets
Steel Hawk Inc. is offering a full refund to customers who bought the non-flesh-shredding bullets.
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The nation's leading manufacturer
of ammunitions Steel Hawk Incorporated
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announced a massive recall today
of jacketed hollow-point bullets
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which may not properly shred
the internal organs of victims.
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When functioning normally
the tip of a hollow-point bullet
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shatters into fragments then
cuts a wide and jagged path
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through the tissue
and bone of its target,
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but due to a factory error
nearly 100,000 bullets
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with solid points were
shipped to retail stores
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resulting in a greatly reduced
capability to explode flesh.
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Steel Hawk CEO John Cullen announced the
recall at a press conference this morning.
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At Steel Hawk nothing is more important
to us than the complete satisfaction
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of our customers when they maim or kill.
Some of these defective bullets
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can leave an exit wound as small
as a plum. That is unacceptable.
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According to the information
released by Steel Hawk
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the first notice about the
defective bullets came from a man
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who shot and killed his brother
during an altercation at a county fair
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and was disappointed that
the victim's face remained
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quote more or less intact.
Frank Ehrman was among
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the hundreds of other
dissatisfied customers.
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You know you spend good money
for a hollow point bullet
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you expect it to explode the head
in a geyser of blood and brains.
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You know if I wanted
to kill someone
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without destroying the body
I'd use a hammer.
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To address complaints like these
the company is also offering
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discount coupons for its
newest product inferno bullets
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bullets which start a small fire inside
of someone when you shoot them.
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We understand that when our
customers shoot a man
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they want to see his liquified organs
pour out of every hole in his body.
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Give us another chance
we'll give you the
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lung-shreddingest bullet
on the market.
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Still the effort might not be
enough for many customers.
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Those people over at Steel Hawk
ought to be shot in the face
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in front of their families.
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Many gun owners have said the
recall has been so frustrating
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they will no longer use bullets
returning to more low tech methods
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like beating victims with spiked clubs
or dragging them behind their cars.
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Moving on Congress announced today
the long debated Darfur aid package
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will be used for a Darfur
memorial instead.
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